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Social media, patients, and physicians: a sticky wicket

by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 9, 2011

Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still...

What You Can Do if You See Slipshod Health Care News

by Jessie Gruman | Aug 5, 2011

Check out Gary Schwitzer of Health News Review on actions you can and should take. Part of a short five part video series. http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2011/07/part-5-of-video-series-what-you-can-do-if-you-see-slipshod-health-care-news.html...

Tune in to hear Retraction Watch on Science Friday

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2011

One of the most common questions about e-patient skills is how to tell the difference between good and bad information, as we research. A wonderful resource just passed its first birthday: Retraction Watch, a blog that digs into the details when science falls short....

Alan Greene: “Jumping out of a Plane is 47 Times Safer Than Checking into a Hospital. Unless…”

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 27, 2011

SPM co-founder and co-chair emeritus Alan Greene MD, of DrGreene.com, just posted this tasty numerical comparison. Remedy, he says? “Working together can be one of the best ways to prevent errors, which is one of the reasons I believe...

The e-Perspectives of e-Patient Dave

by Susannah Fox | Jul 27, 2011

Our own e-Patient Dave is featured in an extensive interview with Kim Chandler McDonald, an Australian journalist who is passionate about what she calls the “meHealth movement.” Part one of their conversation is posted today to coincide with the TED...

How Facebook Saved My Son’s Life (Slate.com)

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2011

“Health is social,” says SPM member Phil Baumann, RN (@PhilBaumann) at HealthIsSocial.com. Slate has a dramatic story of how a mother’s Facebook network helped spot – rapidly – Kawasaki Disease, a rare auto-immune disease that the...